Amazing story: the Czech government spent six years planning a series of dams. A family of beavers constructed the dams for free, in 1-2 says, in the same locations that human picked, accomplishing the goals set by the Czech government and saving humans $1.2 million

Oct 19, 2025 · 11:28 AM UTC

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With few exceptions* building things is great, actually! (* superintelligent AI: if anyone builds it with the current tech, everyone dies; and gain-of-function research in bio: uhm making more deadly viruses is a bad idea)
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What in the fever dream 😂
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Right?!?
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Watch out for the Czech-Beaver War of 2035
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Eh, but keep reading the article- the turbines the beavers built were of a lower wattage than the government ordered, and there was a big lawsuit over it.
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In California or New York those beavers would have been euthanized and the dams removed while step 6 of 89,871 of the official permitting process continues.
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Saving them 1.2mil?? Pay the fucking beavers what they deserve
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wasn't their a us government policy where they air dropped beavers to fix the water flow issues somewhere in montana or something
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That could have been thousands of jobs.
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Honestly I think that this is humiliating, and spending 6 years planning a series of dams that could have been completed with a few days of work is emblematic of much that is wrong with our society.
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What's the Czech for 'leave it to beaver?'
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Can we hire them to run 🇺🇸 Congress
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they're good at what they do
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this is what environmental engineering should be
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Well dam
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beavers and AI taking people's jobs :(
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Love beavers
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What is going on in your country @Cipper_____ ??
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Nature's engineers do it again
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Didn't they change name a few years ago to Czechia?!
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Have you tried living downstream of beaver dams? My neighbors did, and their storage shed ended up floating downstream when one broke 🤪 Rodents are not noted for their attention to QC or their use of sufficient rebar.
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Great. Someone teach the beavers hydro turbine tech so we can utilize it.
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link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver… and iirc as of last year, cali is setting up to use beavers for ecosystem restoration too!

Beaver-engineered dam in the Czech Republic - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org
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I choose to believe the beavers waited 6 years for a permit until they got fed up with the endless euro bureaucracy
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Thank you for specifying they did it for free. We need to acknowledge that they worked their butts off as unpaid labor.
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Beaver driven development
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Similar to horsepower Productivity should be measured in Beaverhours
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Best frickin' piece of information I have ever come across on Twitter. A total Hall Of Famer. Nothing comes close. No documentation, no standup meetings, no PRDs, no ChatGPT... Straight up actual teamwork & execution.
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and I bet you the beaver family didn’t receive a dollar
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To a T
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Beavers get the job done
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